Soul Stirring Stories

By Bronwyn Battye

Adventure, curiosity, and hope; Bronwyn Battye weaves a beautiful Australian flavour through six soul-warming stories for young girls with hearts that seek the Creator.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kylie Margaret Leane
• Release date: Nov 10, 2021
• ISBN: 9798201696412

Bronwyn Battye

Bronwyn Battye was raised on a wheat and sheep farm on the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, where she began writing poetry. She married Alan Battye in 1974, and they have three sons. Very early on in her marriage, Bronwyn has had a real passion for writing. She started doing correspondence courses with Creative Christian enterprises, as well as editing and proofreading courses through Lifestyle Learning Direct - School of Writing of NSW. During this time, she honed her skills by writing and contributing articles in different magazines, newspapers, as well as publishing poetry in anthologies.

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STORY ONE

THE BIG SEARCH

Alison shuffled her tiny feet along the dusty, winding track leading to her home. Short in height, with long black hair and hazel eyes, she was only seven years old, but was never in a hurry to get home. Her mother and father always argued about the Big Man in the sky, as her father angrily described him.

It puzzled Alison. Who could this Big Man be? she wondered. How could one Big Man, even if he was the size of the Uluru rock, cause her mother to love him and her father to make him sound like a monster? she thought.

She stopped suddenly and froze.

Oh my goodness! she spoke aloud, What if he is like the giant in Jack and the Beanstalk!

She began walking again, and a long black snake slivered across a narrow track to her left, and came right in front of her feet.

Aaa...aaah! Alison screamed in fright. Shaking all over, she ran as fast as her spider-thin legs would take her. For once she was in a hurry to get home!

The front door banged and squeaked as she burst through its thin wire-screen. She lived in an old wooden house which her father had transported from some disused railway houses. It was small and comfortable, but very hot in the Australian bush summer. Her mother had created a bright green front lawn, fenced in by rows of thick wooden stumps that she'd collected from the surrounding bushland. Rose bushes lined the unusual fence and Kangaroos sneaked to the edge of the fence at night; then quickly hopped away, disappearing into the moon-shadowed bush. Trees and flowering bushes of all shapes and sizes, made up the ten-kilometre-wide bush.

Sometimes Alison's father and other farmers would spend a night spotlighting, hunting Kangaroos and rabbits. They would tear through the bush in an old blue jeep with faulty brakes, squashing bushes, shrubs, and sticks. Alison sometimes wondered what the Big Man thought of it! Surely if he were as loving as her mother said,